Dana Max Stein (born September 19, 1958) is an American politician who has served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, representing District 11B in Baltimore County, since 2007.

A member of the Democratic Party, he has served as the speaker pro tempore of the Maryland House of Delegates since 2024.

[2] Later that year, he and eventual Maryland lieutenant governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend founded Civic Works,[3] a nonprofit organization that supported Baltimore-based urban service projects,[4] including the restoration of the Clifton Mansion.

[5] Stein first became involved in politics in 1994, when he unsuccessfully ran for the Baltimore County Council in District 2, challenging incumbent councilmember Kevin Kamenetz.

[1] Stein ran for a full term in the 2002 Maryland House of Delegates election,[9] in which he was defeated in the Democratic primary by Jon S.

[22] In 2019, he introduced legislation to push back the deadline to October 2020, and required all jurisdictions that regularly flood during high tide to come up with sea level rise plans, which passed and was signed into law by Governor Hogan.

[26] The bill failed to pass after negotiations between the House and Senate broke down in the final weeks of the legislative session.

[31] During the 2021 legislative session, Stein introduced "Jaelynn's Law", which would require guns to be safely stored and inaccessible for children below the age of 18.

[34] As executive director of Civic Works, Stein supported the passage of National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993, which created and provided funding for AmeriCorps.

[37] In July 2020, Stein cosigned a letter calling on Governor Larry Hogan to extend the state's COVID-19 pandemic eviction moratorium, which was set to expire at the end of the month, until January 2021.

[40] During the 2017 legislative session, Stein introduced the Taxpayer Protection Act, which gave the Comptroller of Maryland's investigators the ability to enforce income tax fraud cases involving tobacco and motor fuel.